Street-cleaning implement.



No. 685,599. Patented Oct. 29, [90L A. M. GREY.

STREET CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

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ANDREW M. GREY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,599, dated October 29, 1901.

Application filed January 24, 1900. Serial No. 2,594- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW M. GREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the countyof Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Cleaning Implements and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to facilitate the work of street-cleaning, to provide an implement which will be more convenient for the workmen, to avoid the necessity of a gang of workmen carrying a plurality of independent tools, to reduce the cost of providing implements for a gang, to enable greater wear to be obtained from each implement, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved street cleaning implement and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved street-cleanin g implement. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is a plan in detail of a hoe-blade adapted to be employed in connection with my improved implement: Fig. 5 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan of the blade and, broom holding casting. Fig. 7 is an edge view of the same, and Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken through line no of Fig. 6.

In said drawings, a indicates a casting of peculiar construction, to which the handle, broom, and hoe-blade are attached and held firmly and securely in their relative positions for operation. Said castingoomprises the body portion a, providing a plateupon the under I side of which the wooden broom-block b may be fastened by means of screws 0 or in any other suitable manner. The screw-holes in said plate, on the under side of the latter, are surrounded with lugs a adapted to be sunk into correspondingly-shaped recesses formed in the broom-block, whereby the strain due to the sweeping operations will be to a large extent removed from the screws, and the device thereby increased in durability. At the forward edge of the said plate a are preferably projecting prongs a which at their forward extremities are upwardly turned, as at of, the upwardly-turned portion forming an obtuse angle with the body portion of the plate a, so as to give to the hoe or scraping blade when fastened upon the seats a of said upturned parts an inclined relation to said plate ,for convenience in scraping, as may be hereinafter more fully described. Upon said turned portions or of the plate a is seated the hoeblade d. This has a separable and reversible relation to the plate (1, whereby the blade can be readily removed and exchanged for a new blade, or the same blade when worn at one side can be reversed in position upon the plate a, so as to bring an unworn edge into play. Said blade is of peculiar construction and is adapted to not only be reversed so as to bring the opposite ends of the same longitudinal edge into operative play, but may be also reversed so that a new longitudinal edge may be brought into play, the worn edge in that event being attached to the plate. With this in View both edges of the hoe-blade are provided with perforations d a little back from the extreme edges of 'said blade and adapted to receive screws or bolts e or any other suitable fastening means, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

At the opposite end of the plateafrom that upon which the scraping or hoe blade cl is seated is integrally formed a handled socket a", adapted to receive the ordinary hoe handle (not shown) in any ordinary manner. The said socket is also inclined at a more or less obtuse angle to the plate a, as indicated in Fig. 7.

The hoe-blade d is centrally recessed at its opposite ends, as indicated at d d in Fig. at, to form at the four corners of the blade acute socket comprises an ordinary block, at the under side of which are the bristles b, the

said bristles being ratan, steel, split hickory,

bass, or other material suitable for streetcleaning. The said broom is made detachable from the plate a, so that it may be reversed in position, and the'unworn end may be changed to the place of the worn end, and

vice versa, as will be understood.

It will be noticed upon examination more particularly of Figs. 2 and 3 that the prongs a a project quite a distance forward from the seat of the broom. As a result the workman is enabled when hoeing or scraping the road-bed to have a better view of the hoe, and is thus better able to intelligently manipulate the implement.

My improved hoe-blade d in detail is flat, so that when reversed in position upon its seat the angle'of the blade in its relation to the body of the plate and the handle of the implement will be maintained the same. The angular recesses d in the opposite side edges of the hoe-blade, furthermore, not only provide the groove-scrapers d but also secure lightness and a saving of metal,which enables a very wide hoe-blade to be provided.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. Theimproved street-cleaning implement herein described, comprising a plate a, pro viding a broom-seat a, and, forward of said broom seat having forwardly projecting prongs a the ends of which are upwardly inclined and rearward of said broom-seat having a handle-socket a a hoe-blade removably secured on the upwardly-inclined ends of the prongs, and a broom, the back of which is removably secured upon said broom-seat, substantially as set forth.

2. Theimprovedstreet-cleaningimplement herein described comprising a plate having a seat on its under side against which the top of a broom-back maybe fixed, said plate projecting forward from said seat, and the end extending upward from the plane of said seat and providing, at the front of the upward extension, a seat for a hoe, and rearward of said broom-back seat, said plate having a rearwardly-inclined handle socket or receptacle, a broom the back of which is fastened at its top upon said broom-seat and a hoeblade removably secured upon said hoe-seat, a view-space being form ed between the broomback and edge of the hoe-blade next adja-' cent thereto, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of January, 1900.

ANDREW M. GREY. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY. 

